We formulate some existence theorems for systems of elliptic equations with nonlocal terms. The proofs are based on the invariant region method. The results are applied to a multitemperature model of laser sustained plasma.

We consider plasma tearing mode instabilities when the resistivity depends on a flux function (ψ), for the plane slab model. This problem, represented by the MHD equations, is studied as a bifurcation problem. For so doing, it is written in the form (I(.)-T(S,.)) = 0, where T(S,.) is a compact operator in a suitable space and S is the bifurcation parameter. In this work, the resistivity is not assumed to be a given quantity (as usually done in previous papers, see [1,2,5,7,8,9,10], but it depends...

Ce papier porte sur l’étude mathématique d’une équation du type de Grad-Mercier qui décrit, dans certaines circonstances, l’équilibre d’un plasma confiné [H. Grad, P.N. Hu et D.C. Stevens, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 72,n${}^{\circ }$10 (1975), 3789–3793, C. Mercier, Publication of Euratom, CEA, Luxembourg (1974), C. Mercier, Communications personnelles à R. Temam et aux auteurs]. Il s’agit de trouver une fonction “régulière” $u$ solution du système$$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-\Delta u+\lambda g\left[\delta \right(u\left)\right]=0\hfill & \text{dans}\Omega ,\hfill \\ u=\text{constante}\text{(inconnue)}\>0\hfill & \text{sur}\partial \Omega ,\hfill \\ {\int }_{\partial \Omega }\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}=I,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$où $\Omega$ est un ouvert borné régulier de ${\mathbf{R}}^n$, et$$\delta \left(u\right)\left(x\right)=\mathrm{mes}\{y\in \Omega \mid u(x)\<u(y)\<0\}.$$L’opérateur non linéaire...